Dre the GOAT won‘t debate that

If you wanna keep 50 that bad then take Nas out of 90s and put HOV in cuz if you don't got HOV from 96-2007 that's brazy

I could put him as the fourth in the 90s cause Nas is Nas bro changed this whole s***

if I have to take someone out then its gotta be fif because removing em would be white erasure and I cant allow it and removing hov would be rewriting history solely off the fact I dislike him bc hes a billionaire now

fif can take it and hes just as undeniable as any other three guys. matter of fact ill probably pick grodt over any of those three's albums. wayne not going anywhere btw

Def don't disagree, your basicaly fighting to have 50 cent as a big 3 lol.. easiest move just take him out and throw HOV into 2000s and your list prolly holds up a lot better

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50 was bigger it‘s jus the truth I also think Jay the better rapper but you could go to some random country in the Middle East and mfs would still be bumping him he was massive and had the catalog so I think it‘s fair I get what y‘all mean tho

Either Jay for fourth place in the 90s or the 00s hmmm

I put him in the 90s cause that‘s his generation makes more sense to me

updated with people who didnt make it but by a very very narrow margin. I wanted to be as impartial as I can. I would swap chuck d with bdk and em with fif if I had to pick my own faves

big 3 for 20's is drake & future, the 3rd is undecided

Get off the gas. He died out when they stopped playing pursuit of happiness on the radio. The only reason why he held strong to the public was because ye was right beside him. Perfect example of that is kids see ghosts.

Clearly you’re misinformed
Drake was showing public love to cudi and his influence even with wzrd

Kendrick was doing the same with motm2 & indicud

nas>jay in the 90's

50>jay in the 2000's

jay stans cope as much as u want but jay was never "that guy" for more than a year (98 & 99 only, and even then DMX out shined) and his mid to late 2000's run was a by product of beyonce & ye

50&em ran the the 2000's until around 2007 when ye & wayne became that guy

I did this. Thx

bro the 2000s run of blueprint to American gangster is like 7 years of dominance tho lol, thats like a 2010 to 2018 drake level run.. 50 had more higher selling albums (a la interscope plugs) but HOV was utterly defining the culture at this point.. especially after 50 dissed HOV and lost to his protege cmon now lol

Edit: black album alone better than anything 50s put out lol. Also 50 ended in 2007 cuz ye killed him and em was too pilled out

hov was not "dominating" 2000-2007 lol

and "defining the culture" is too subjective when talking about the big 3

Em and 50 both released the biggest hiphop albums in the same 2000-2007 period that are still the biggest to this day

in my opinon i would look at the 2000's like this:

Big 3 2000-2007:
EM, 50, hov

Big 3 2007-2010:
Ye, Wayne, Hov

when u look at the whole decade of the 2000's tho em & 50 have to be there, and whos the defined #3? wayne hov or ye, personally im going with Ye

Black Album BP1 BP2 American Ganster all in 7 years :​isn't dominating tho?

Not even tryna die on a hill but the man like defined being 21st century rapper in this 7 year span, dropping CLASSICS lol

50 is definitely up there don't get me wrong and I respect him but no way I can, respectfully, put him above HOVs run

Edit: defining the culture meaning at this point in time HOV was literally rap. Just like MJ WAS basketball in the 90s

Hov himself said that he was never the most popular rapper out. He the most consistent but I think OP was right for not choosing him as a representative of the 90s or 00s. If you made a list off 97-03, Hov would be 100% in there and him not representing either eras doesn't make him less of a Goat

Jay was clear no 1 for like one year whatever year the linkin park thing was, rest of the time he floated between 2-5 tbf never dominant mostly consistent

we gonna have to agree to disagree respectfully

but HOV was def #4 in the 90's and 2000's and i think at some points in both decades he shot up to #1 during certain years.

I think a big issue with Hov which is also the same issue with Wayne is they both peaked in the end of a decade and the beginning of a new decade. (97-2002/2003 for Hov, & 07-11/12 for Wayne, obviously Wayne with the re-peak on C5 few years later)

yall need to find something else to talk about

20s: Drake - Travis - Future

Awesome :) I think it’s a great list!

True regarding last point